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Beyond the North Atlantic (2012)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. (2012). Beyond the North Atlantic. In D. Starkey, & I. Heidbrink (Eds.), A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries, Volume 2: From the 1850s to the Early Twentieth-First Century. Hauschild Verlag

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Fisheries have long been conducted over a wide geographical range. European fishers first exploited the cod stocks that live off Newfoundland in the early sixteenth century (Innis 1940: 11-2), by which time Icelandic waters had b... Read More about Beyond the North Atlantic.

Private companies, culture and place in the development of Hull's maritime business sector, c.1860-1914 (2012)
Book Chapter
Barnard, M. G., & Starkey, D. J. (2012). Private companies, culture and place in the development of Hull's maritime business sector, c.1860-1914. In G. Harlaftis, S. Tenold, & J. M. Valdaliso (Eds.), The World’s Key Industry : History and Economics of International Shipping (200-219). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137003751_12

Skip Fischer has suggested that maritime historians often fail to situate their studies ‘within the broader debates that animate discussion and research in the larger [historical] profession’. While this may be true of many branches of the history di... Read More about Private companies, culture and place in the development of Hull's maritime business sector, c.1860-1914.